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† diˈsquatte, v. Obs.
Pa. tense and pple. disquatt.
[f. di-, dis- 1 + squatte-n, squat v., to crush, break (cf. to-squatte in same sense): perh. AF. had desquater, -ir, for OF. esquater, -eir, -ir to break.]
trans. To break asunder, smash; to violate (a truce).
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 246 A woman shal disquatte his heed. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. 233 The whiche trewes he falsely and vntrewely by cauellacions losed and dysquatte. Ibid. ccxxix. 240 Thurugh lettyng of the pope and of the court of rome the forsayd couenaunts were disquatt and left of. |